Dear Editor,
After the floods of the night of November 19 and all day Thursday, November 20, I sincerely hope that Minister Ali and all the bloggers who thought that covering over the canals to accommodate parked cars in Georgetown was a swell idea, will have second thoughts. I am no engineer but I have common sense, and common sense tells me that filling in all the drains on the East Bank Demerara roadway with concrete was a very bad idea. Are our engineers smarter than the British and Dutch engineers who laid out the infrastructure of Guyana? Mr Walter Willis please help me out here.
My family has been living in the same house in Georgetown since 1966. Not even in the Great Flood of January 2005 did the yard flood as high. I woke up this morning and there was water in the kitchen and the garage. My heart sank. I went out and bought sandbags. On the news tonight Minister Robeson Benn is quoted as saying that the citizens of Georgetown can expect no relief for at least three more days. So is this now the Greater Flood? The second 100 year flood in 9 years?
Yours faithfully,
Jennifer Bulkan